Google's New AI Is Learning to Diagnose Patients

Navigating healthcare systems as a patient can be daunting at the best of times, whether you’re interpreting jargon-filled diagnoses or determining which specialists to see next. Similarly, doctors often have grueling schedules which make it difficult to offer personalized attention to all their patients. These issues are only exacerbated in areas with limited physicians and medical infrastructure.

Bringing AI into the doctor’s office to alleviate these problems is a dream that researchers have been working towards since IBM’s Watson made …

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